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Travel Bug Dog Tag WW II-Silent Wings Museum TB13

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Origin:
Texas, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of wiscoripple.

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Current Goal

This and several other of my travel bugs are shamelessly being discovered at events (mostly in Europe) while actually moving elsewhere, or being missing for years. The tracking numbers were placed on Pinterest and Facebook pages, and on at least two lists that are being taken from event to event. I delete the discovery logs when I see them, to eliminate confusion among cachers who are actually holding the bugs. Some people just cheat at everything.

Please drop this item in rural OR Premium Member Only caches.  Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the travel bug anywhere you wish.  No permission is needed to leave the U.S.

Photos in the travel bug logs are appreciated.  I will be re-post them here, where they can be seen by other cachers.

About This Item

SilentWingPendant

Keychain Pendant (WACO-CG4A). This item was purchased at the Silent Wings Museum, Lubbock, TX. The museum preserves and promotes the history of the World War II military glider program. The facility is located on the site of the World War II South Plains Army Air Field, where about 80% of the glider pilots were trained between 1942 and 1945. The pendant depicts a WACO CG4A, the most widely used United States troop/cargo military glider of World War II.  Among many exhibits, the museum houses a faithfully restored example of the nearly the nearly 15,000 WACO gliders built during the war effort.
 
The CG-4A was constructed of fabric-covered wood and metal and was crewed by a pilot and copilot. It had two fixed mainwheels and a tailwheel. The CG-4A could carry 13 troops and their equipment. Cargo loads could be a jeep, a 75 mm howitzer, or a ¼ ton trailer; they were loaded through the upward-hinged nose section. C-47s were usually used as tow aircraft. CG-4As went into operation in July 1943 during the Allied invasion of Sicily. They participated in the American airborne landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944, and in other important airborne operations in Europe and in the China-Burma-India Theater.
 
The WACOs were conceived and built to be retrieved and reused. On the battlefield a tow cable was elevated to be available for a low-flying tow plane equipped with a tail hook. However, gliders were generally considered expendable by high-ranking European theater officers and combat personnel and were usually abandoned, or destroyed, after the initial landing. Despite this general lack of support for the recovery system, several gliders were recovered from Normandy and even more from the Operation Market-Garden in the Netherlands and Wesel, Germany.

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Tracking History (65427.9mi) View Map

Discovered It 12/5/2023 DD_LL discovered it   Visit Log

Vor langer Zeit gesehen und nun discoverd

Gesammelt auf Megas / Events / an Autos oder in ECHT :-)

Danke fürs zeigen

Discovered It 3/20/2018 JaMaDuLi discovered it   Visit Log

In verschiedenen Logbüchern, auf Events oder bei anderen Gelegenheiten diesen tollen TB/Coin gesehen. So wurde dieser natürlich auch discovert.
Vielen Dank fürs Zeigen und allzeit gute Reise.
Liebe Grüsse…
"JaMaDuLi"

Discovered It 2/3/2016 T.-Dreckspatzen discovered it   Visit Log

Hallo lieber TB/Coin-Besitzer!
Wir haben von 2013 bis Ende 2015 aktiv "gecached" (Geocaching gespielt).
Auf sämtlichen Events, Megaevents, Gigaevents und auch in einigen Caches und deren Logbüchern haben wir immer wieder TBs und Coins in den verschiedensten Formen und Arten wie Stempel, Anhänger etc. entdeckt und diese stets mit notiert, um sie nachfolgend zu discovern. Leider kamen wir nur nie richtig hinterher, weil das Loggen eines gefundenen Geocache für uns im Vordergrund steht.
Nun versuchen wir das discovern der vielen Codes, nach und nach abzuarbeiten.

Wir entschuldigen uns im Voraus für den Einheitslog!

Danke für´s zeigen und allzeit schöne Cacheerlebnisse :)

Visited 3/31/2015 wiscoripple took it to Trip Trap Trip Trap Wisconsin - 11.01 miles  Visit Log
Write note 3/11/2015 wiscoripple posted a note for it   Visit Log

Just saw your note... shameless cachers indeed! Shame on you all! Its been safe and sound in my swag bag for months in our coat closet LOL

Write note 3/11/2015 wiscoripple posted a note for it   Visit Log

Umm... I still have this, not sure how all these logs were put in. I found it in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The winters are long here so I unfortunately didn't get to move it along to a decent sized cache before all the snow hit. We are thawing now though! I plan to move it along soon. Again, it is currently in my possession in Green Bay, WI.

Retrieve It from a Cache 10/23/2014 wiscoripple retrieved it from JU81515 Wisconsin   Visit Log

We'll keep this guy moving for you--probably around Thanksgiving when we head out of town to visit family..

Dropped Off 10/18/2014 ski21 placed it in JU81515 Wisconsin - 8.87 miles  Visit Log
Visited 10/11/2014 ski21 took it to Outa the ballpark! Wisconsin - 26.61 miles  Visit Log
Visited 9/3/2014 ski21 took it to Paint By Number Wisconsin - 30.86 miles  Visit Log
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